English Grammar for Dummies (Repost)

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English grammar—made fun and easy! Speak with ease, write with confidence, and release your fears! Avoid speech blunders and grammar foul-ups with this friendly, practical guide!

Sick of people correcting your grammar all the time? Relax! Let expert Geraldine Woods show you the way. From pronouns, participles, and parallel structure to adjectives, verbs, and tenses, this friendly guide will put the joy back into "proper" speaking and writing—without bogging you down in a boring list of rules.

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A few years ago, a magazine sponsored a contest for the comment most likely to end a conversation. The winning entry? "I teach English grammar." Just throw that line out at a party; everyone around you will clam up or start saying "whom."

Why does grammar make everyone so nervous? Probably because English teachers, for decades—no, for centuries—have been making a big deal out of grammar in classrooms, diagramming sentences and drilling the parts of speech, clauses, and verbals into students until they beg for mercy. Happily, you don't have to learn all those technical terms of English grammar—and you certainly don't have to diagram sentences—in order to speak and write correct English.

So rest assured—English Grammar For Dummies will probably never make your English teacher's top-ten list of must-read books, because you won't have to diagram a single sentence. What you will discover are fun and easy strategies that can help you when you're faced with such grammatical dilemmas as the choice between "I" and "me," "had gone" and "went," and "who" and "whom." With English Grammar For Dummies, you won't have to memorize a long list of meaningless rules (well, maybe a couple in the punctuation chapter!), because when you understand the reason for a particular word choice, you'll pick the correct word automatically.

English Grammar For Dummies covers many other topics as well, such as the following:

Verbs, adjectives, and adverbs—oh my!
Preposition propositions and pronoun pronouncements
Punctuation: The lowdown on periods, commas, colons, and all those other squiggly marks
Possession: It's nine-tenths of grammatical law
Avoiding those double negative vibes
How to spice up really boring sentences (like this one)
Top Ten lists on improving your proofreading skills and ways to learn better grammar

Just think how improving your speaking and writing skills will help you in everyday situations, such as writing a paper for school, giving a presentation to your company's big wigs, or communicating effectively with your family. You will not only gain the confidence in knowing you're speaking or writing well, but you'll also make a good impression on those around you!

Contents

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Cheet Sheet
About the Author
Dedication
Author's Acknowledgments
Contents at a Glance
Cartoons at a Glance
Table of Contents
Introduction

Part I: The Parts of Speech and Parts of the Sentence
1 I Already Know How to Talk. Why Should I Study Grammar?
2 Verbs: The Heart of the Sentence
3 Relax! Understanding Verb Tense
4 Who's Doing What? How to Find the Subject
5 Having It All: The Complete Sentence
6 Handling Complements

Part II: Avoiding Common Errors
7 Getting Hitched: Marrying Sentences
8 Do You Feel Bad or Badly? The Lowdown on Adjectives and Adverbs
9 Prepositions and Interjections and Articles, Oh My! Other Parts of Speech
10 Everyone Brought Their Homework: Pronoun Errors
11 Just Nod Your Head: About Agreement

Part III: No Garage, but Plenty of Mechanics
12 Punctuation Law That Should Be Repealed: Apostrophes
13 Quotations: More Rules Than the Internal Revenue Service
14 The Pause That Refreshes: Commas
15 Adding Information: Semicolons, Dashes, and Colons
16 Capital Letters

Part IV: Polishing Without Wax—The Finer Points of Grammar
17 Pronouns and Their Cases
18 Fine-tuning Verbs
19 Saying What You Want to Say: Descriptive Words and Phrases
20 Good, Better, Best: Comparisons
21 Parallels Without the Lines

Part V: Rules Even Your Great-Aunt's Grammar Teacher Didn't Know
22 The Last Word on Verbs
23 The Last Word on Pronouns
24 The Last Word on Sentence Structure
25 The Last Word on Punctuation

Part VI: The Part of Tens
26 Ten Ways to Improve Your Proofreading
27 Ten Ways to Learn Better Grammar

Index

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Also see these books on English Usage (which Woods doesn't cover):

H. W. Fowler & Ernest Gowers, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (2nd Edition)"

Garner's Modern American Usage (2nd Edition)

H. W. Fowler - The New Fowler's Modern English Usage 3rd Edition

Webster's Dictionary of English Usage

Also see these Thesauri:

Webster’s New Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms With Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted Words

J. I. Rodale, "The Synonym Finder"

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